Drive

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches drive through Freud. He holds that every drive tends to restore an earlier state and fulfils itself by disappearing in satisfaction, as hunger moves toward satiety1. He distinguishes it from human desire, which is infinite2. Behind every drive he places the death drive, which he understands as a return to inert matter and which Freud identifies with the principle of repetition3. He grounds it in an axiom: the inert precedes the living, which makes it a transbiological drive4. In his view, this last topography contradicts the opposition between the pleasure principle and the reality principle and ruins the Freudian theory founded on the pleasure principle5. He links it to the Romantic temptation and to Wagner's character Kundry, who longs only to sleep and die. In recent sessions, he takes up the saying that "the death drives advance in silence" to refer to the danger of war that the media keep quiet about6.

1. 1Discussion entre Aliocha Allard et Dominique Pagani, 29 Mars 201726 Feb 2019 · 10:57
2. 2Freud1 Aug 2017 · 28:42
3. 3Freud1 Aug 2017 · 33:03
4. 4La mondanité chez Clouscard : Désirer quoi ? Par qui ??3 Sept 2023 · 42:04
5. 5#2.7 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 14:34
6. 6Les silences du vacarme médiatique - nouveau cycle : la renazification atlantiste.21 Oct 2025 · 19:45

Summary produced automatically from 11 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.